
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ramsey County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 12,066 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,016 | 100.0 | Native | 11,880 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 152 | 5.0 | Born in United States | 11,795 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 166 | 5.5 | State of residence | 10,043 | 83.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,438 | 47.7 | Different state | 1,752 | 14.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 742 | 24.6 | Born outside United States | 85 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 518 | 17.2 | Foreign born | 186 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 71 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 110 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,123 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 76 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 806 | 9.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 808 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,047 | 25.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 186 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,015 | 24.8 | Europe | 37 | 19.9 | |
| Associate degree | 916 | 11.3 | Asia | 25 | 13.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,181 | 14.5 | Africa | 6 | 3.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 350 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 43 | 23.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.1 | (X) | Northern America | 75 | 40.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,401 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,626 | 100.0 | English only | 10,998 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 2,391 | 24.8 | Language other than English | 403 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,353 | 55.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 106 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 93 | 1.0 | Spanish | 87 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 932 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 731 | 7.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 264 | 2.3 | |
| Divorced | 857 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 481 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,066 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 71 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,386 | 127.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 53 | 74.6 | Arab | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 200 | 1.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 146 | 1.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,984 | 100.0 | Dutch | 188 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,051 | 11.7 | English | 436 | 3.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 573 | 4.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 134 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,161 | 42.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,880 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 295 | 10.2 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,120 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 959 | 7.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,192 | 19.5 | Italian | 67 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 66.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,928 | 80.5 | Norwegian | 4,481 | 37.1 | |
| Percent employed | 83.1 | (X) | Polish | 258 | 2.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,049 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 21 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 763 | 37.2 | Russian | 223 | 1.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 109 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 236 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,401 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,360 | 55.8 | Swedish | 672 | 5.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,879 | 42.8 | Swiss | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,655 | 23.3 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,224 | 19.5 | United States or American | 172 | 1.4 | |
| Same state | 1,615 | 14.2 | Welsh | 52 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 609 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 162 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 1,230 | 10.2 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

